TY - BOOK TI - The best American travel writing. 2001 SN - 0618118780 U1 - 910.13 PY - 2001/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Traveler's writing's, American--Periodicals KW - Periodicals KW - Voyages and travels N1 - As long as we were together, nothing bad could happen to us / Scott Anderson -- Fox and whale, priest and angel / Russell Banks -- Volcano alley is ticking / Tim Cahill -- Among the man-eaters / Philip Caputo -- Iran : Are you ready? / Andrew Cockburn -- The endless hunt / Gretel Ehrlich -- Desperate passage / Michael Finkel -- Desert hideaway / Ian Frazier -- View from the bridge / Peter Hessler -- Why we travel / Pico Iyer -- Into the heart of the middle kingdom / Kathleen Lee -- Travels with Chekhov / Janet Malcolm -- Daughter of the wind / Lawrence Millman -- This we came to know afterward / Susan Minot -- The place to disappear / Susan Orlean -- The post-Communist wolf / David Quammen -- A dream of glorious return / Salman Rushdie -- Paradise lost / Edward W. Said -- Something wild in the blood / Bob Shacochis -- Croatian rock / Thomas Swick -- Miraculous fishing / Patrick Symmes -- Back in the USSR? / Jeffrey Tayler -- The very, very, very big chill / Marcel Theroux -- Is just like Amerika? / Brad Wetzler -- Dining out in Iceland / Jason Wilson -- Beyond Siberia / Simon Winchester ER -